Danielle is a multidisciplinary filmmaker and designer with an extensive documentary and creative catalog. She graduated from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, with a BFA, double major in film and illustration. She is currently the Creative Director at Circuit Arts and a filmmaker with Circuit Films. An accomplished solo videographer and director, she has collaborated with a variety of artists and nonprofits, highlighting video animations, and video projection installations. Her works have been presented in a variety of events and venues, with recent works most notably featured at Mass MoCA and The Guggenheim. Danielle is an experienced editorial illustrator and graphic designer, and when she isn’t working for Circuit Arts she is busy with painting, designing textiles and curating work for her small business dedicated to preserving old art forms called, Archil Designs. Danielle is a full-time resident of the small island of Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.
Danielle Mulcahy is a mulit-media artist who graduated from Massachusetts College of Art and Design with a dual major in Illustration and Film/Video. Her early experiments with film, animation were noticed at a young age, and her developing skills nurtured by her family’s event photography business. She quickly adapted to the fast pace and professional nature of documenting events and editing video and photos. When she wasn't making films, she was drawing and painting. Armed with an understanding of many forms of media, she propelled rapidly ahead in and out of art school and hasn't slowed since.
After graduation Danielle created illustrations for children’s books and nationally syndicated magazines. She also created stop motion animations for musicians and television including a pilot intro for ABC Family. While honing her skills as a freelancer Danielle maintained focus on her own artistic output. As a grant recipient of Pathways Arts she produced “The Seed Series” a collection of experimental visual narrative shorts presented at a variety of events including the MV Museum, The Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival, and MassArt Film Society. This was quickly followed by “We Are More Than A Day” a genre-bending dance performance in collaboration with The Yard and MASS MoCa. Danielle and The Yard worked together frequently resulting in site-specific video installations and short films including “The Blue of Distance” which premiered at the Dance On Camera Festival in New York City.
In 2014 Danielle started her first business, BarnYard Saints Art, a lifestyle and decor brand that supported local farms and taught traditional fiber processing and production techniques, including launching a series of her paintings which were reproduced and sold in small businesses throughout the country. The outfit hit the road in 2016 in a converted RV traveling the country for the next 2 years, making art, hosting pop-ups and teaching workshops along the way.
After life on the road Danielle returned to Martha’s Vineyard where she joined MVFF Productions (now Circuit Films). With a focus on elevating non-profits, Circuit Films produces campaigns for causes such as affordable housing and sustainable agriculture. When not working locally, Circuit Films caters to national clients like, The Discovery Channel, Vox Media, and The History Channel. Danielle also works with Circuit Arts as a creative director creating graphics, animation and branding for all the programs associated with the non-profit, including The Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival.
In 2020 Danielle’s previous experience with dancers brought her to the whimsical post-apocalypse in “Afterbang”, an original short with Seattle based Landforms Dance premiering at Built On Stilts Dance Festival, and many other online platforms. A year later came “Rizing”, a site-specific work of immersive storytelling and movement in which she performed and produced accompanying video projection.
Most recently, Danielle has been working with an on-going dance and video projection piece called “Indian Letters” with Thresh Dance, directed by Artists and dancers, Preeti Vasudevan and Amar Ramasar. "Indian Letters” was recently presented at The Guggenheim Museum as part of Works & Process' Underground Uptown Dance Festival.
Currently Danielle is focusing on Archil Designs, a fashion brand and art curation dedicated to the preservation of old art forms, traditional textile techniques and the empowerment of its practitioners, including her own designs and paintings. This passionate pursuit of celebrating process has Danielle frequenting India to learn and work with experienced artisans in ancient technique and design.
Danielle is currently based on Martha’s Vineyard. When she isn't traveling or working you can find her with her beloved pets. She has a variety of ongoing side projects including creating videos of her animal friends, entertaining her 218K tiktok followers, or getting into trouble with her horse archery club, Amity Island Horse Archers, and saving baby mice and making a tiny mouse library for them.